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https://oz-academy.com/
https://twitter.com/info_ozacademy
https://www.instagram.com/ozacademy/
https://www.youtube.com/c/OZacademyWomensProwrestling/

The Birth of Oz Academy w/English Subtitles:
https://youtu.be/6to2Nph_MoY

2023 SHOWS: https://pastebin.com/ZZj4edQt
2024 SHOWS: https://pastebin.com/e60erums

previously: >>14863557

2024 Schedule:
October 27th (Sun) 0:00 Kanagawa, Yokohama Budokan
November 10th (Sun) 18:00 Tokyo, Shinjuku FACE
November 24th (Sun) 12:30 Okinawa, Okinawa Prefectural Budokan
December 15th (Sun) 12:00 Osaka 176BOX
December 30th (Mon) 11:30 Tokyo, Korakuen Hall

2025 Schedule:
January 5 (Sun) 12:00 Shinjuku FACE, Tokyo
January 26 (Sun) 14:00 Okinawa, JTA Dome Miyakojima
February 9 (Sun) 12:00 Shinjuku FACE, Tokyo
February 23 (Sun) 12:00 Osaka·176BOX
March 9 (Sun) 18:00 Shinjuku FACE, Tokyo
March 30 (Sun) 13:00 Nagoya Diamond Hall, Aichi
April 13 (Sun) 11:30 Tokyo/Korakuen Hall
May 11 (Sun) 18:00 Shinjuku FACE, Tokyo
May 25 (Sun) 12:00 Osaka 176BOX
June 8 (Sun) 12:00 Shinjuku FACE, Tokyo
July 6 (Sun) 18:00 Tokyo/Shinjuku FACE
August 17 (Sun) 11:30 Tokyo/Korakuen Hall
August 24 (Sun) Time TBD (Lunchtime Event) Nagoya Diamond Hall, Aichi
September 7 (Sun) 18:00 Shinjuku FACE, Tokyo
September 28 (Sun) 12:00 Osaka 176BOX
November 9 (Sun) 18:00 Shinjuku FACE, Tokyo
November 30 (Sun) 13:00 Nagoya Diamond Hall, Aichi
December 14 (Sun) 12:00 Osaka·176BOX
December 30 (Tue) 11:30 Tokyo, Korakuen Hall

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Reminder that stardrones and marigooks are not welcome here.

>>16138579
stardom player saori anou

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>>16138658
oz academy player

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What does FWC stand for?

>>16138611
Stardom are our friends now

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>>16138611
>WHATA MANEUVER!

>>16139704
>For White Cocks

>>16138579
Fuck Marvelous for running takumi/meiko on the same day as our Budokan. I hope their show does shit attendance

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>>16138579
Saori finna win the belt

>>16139704
Failed Wrestling Class

>>16138579
>>16140251
special...

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The survival showdown match usually lasts around an hour
Whoever challenges ozaki could be in the ring for 90 minutes in total

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The 10/27 Yokohama Budokan show will be a PPV on Zaiko.

>https://l-tike.zaiko.io/e/ozacademy1027

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>>16139859
They're running Nagoya, totally different fan base miles away.

MARIGOLD is doing a double header at Shin-Kiba (12pm & 5pm) so maybe 80-100 fans lost there.

>>16141547
No one is losing fans because of marigold lmao

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>>16141550
I guess is depends on whether the trek to Shin-Kiba is closer than Yokohama for the bald uncles of Tokyo.
Some might do the early Marigold and then Oz - 1½ hour train between them, 30 minutes by car.

Not a fan of Anou's white whip.

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>>16141601
They're not all bald, anon

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>>16141939
wifebeater-san was never an OzBro.
I remember Stardom made him put a shirt on; is he still a Stardrone or did he make the jump to Maricold?

>>16141506
Bless the death of niconico

>>16142411
Not if it means I can't get a monthly Oz show.
We used to get Osaka shows and even an occasional Okinawa show

>>16142379
Now I know why she made Guilia seethe with jealousy. Good lord.

>>16142449
They're banning foreign credit cards anyway, fuck em

>>16142614
you have to use Apple Pay through safari

>>16138611
Aren't you too old to be on 4chan?

>>16142644
Imagine being part of the apple ecosystem lmao

>>16142763
Japan is the more forward and backward 1st world country.
Nico only lets foreigners pay with Apple Pay and to do it you need to use Safari on an iPhone.

They're the fucking worst

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>>16143054
The PPV this weekend is on Zaiko and that's just a normal credit card pay without Nico's 2004 points and bullshit Apple pay faggot shit.

>>16143054
I just buy the nico points instead.

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>>16143085
>Momoka & Kaichow threesome
I'm ded in heaven

>>16143179
Put your cock away hornball

Did the June show that broke NicoPro ever air or is it lost forever? It's not in the pastebin.

>>16144968
Never did, they stole my money.

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>>16143751

>>16145152
peach peach

>>16139704
>Fat Whores Club

>>16147060
I don't watch Stardom, but please tell me Hazuki didn't get fat.

>>16145152
visual player

>>16147071
Nah she's fine

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Oz Academy
Can't Be Stopped
2010.11.03

>Singles Match
Mayumi Ozaki vs. Nao Komatsu
>Six Man Tag Team Match
Aja Kong, AKINO & Ran YuYu vs. Ayumi Kurihara, Dynamite Kansai & Manami Toyota
>Tag Team Match
Hiren & Yumi Ohka vs. Hiroyo Matsumoto & Tomoka Nakagawa
>Six Man Tag Team Match
Carlos Amano, Chikayo Nagashima & Sonoko Kato vs. Tanny Mouse, Yoshiko Tamura & Yuki Miyazaki
>Oz Academy Openweight Title Match
KAORU (c) vs. Takako Inoue

>https://mega.nz/file/pZYzESJS#zcNMElFxY_6-0LNELBQ_s5weA6SR2ud2V0MlxZn6EgE

>>16147981
don't have this one. thanks OzBro
Tag team and main for me

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>>16147981
TY so I'll give you a NEO.

Haruka Matsuo was so hot.
Might be the "dark ages" most idol loss.

-----

NEO
"Victorious 3"
October 14th, 2007
Itabashi Green Hall
Tokyo, Japan

>1. Tag Team Match
Etsuko Mita & Miki Ishii vs. Cherry & Nagisa Nozaki
>2. Singles Match
Yoshiko Tamura vs. Makoto
>3. Tag Team Match
Lingerie Muto & Tomoka Nakagawa vs. Tanny Mouse & Yuki Miyazaki
>4. Singles Match
Haruka Matsuo vs. Aoi Kizuki
>5. NEO Tag Team Title Match
Ayako Hamada(c) & Kaoru Ito(c) vs. Aya Yuuki & Misae Genki


>https://mega.nz/file/VbUFhbDZ#CyiDeDn93FSH-s75hlyTbKZIsuvwxy-FSjigcCYdJXQ

>>16148402
>"dark ages"
The crowd in that webm looking comparable if not larger than most shows today is funny

>>16148423
Yeah, if you haven't noticed pro wrestling in Japan is on a deep downswing.
It's just shit attendance and product across the board.
The horrible economy is a factor.

>>16148402
Thanks.

>>16148423
it's the same uncles they're just not bald yet and 2007 no smartphones so no good cameras to take creep shots. Notice they're watching not filming.

>>16148423
it's called the dark ages because we don't have a lot of tapes from that era. shows still did good attendance.
>https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=180784

>>16148464
Also the joshi companies lost TV and MMA was rising and Inoki thought exposing the business was a good idea

>>16148484
Is there a Haruka Matsuo vs. Io Shirai singles match out there?
Io would've been flippy shindy 18 version but I feel like it could be based

>>16148507
>Io would've been flippy shindy 18 version
Literally the only good version of io

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>>16148553
you're way past.
This was purple plaid skirt Io era

>>16148507
not a single but maybe the closest

https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=35974&page=2

Saori winning the belt tonight?

>>16148926
ozakiwinslol

Over/under for the crowd is 2000人.

>>16148955
1200 and that will be with rossy level inflation

>>16148955
1750

2011: 2515人
2015: 2025人
2016: 2330人
2017: 3789人
2018: 2091人
2019: 2137人
2020: 999人
2023: 1528人

This feels bigger than akino vs iroha last year

>>16150256
Not hard to feel bigger than a takumi match desu

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Grim nooj show today. Bushiroad going out of business.

>>16150401
solid marigold 665

Luv a big ozaki clusterfuck rules match
kino everytime

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This is the hand gesture that represents giving oral sex to a female. Notice how the fingers are splayed in a V shape, the shape of a vagina. Observe the lips puckered as if kissing. A protruding tongue also commonly accompanies this lewd gesture. This secret code is how lesbians within the joshi puro business identify each other.

>>16150897
It's just cute nigga

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>>16151529
then why do only lesbians do it?

>>16150453
Kek

>>16139704
flabby without clothes

>>16154153
Kek

FWC and syuri will draw the house

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Rossy is gone there is no reason too hate stardom anymore

>>16154944
Don't be daft. Ozaki is always the draw when are newfags and pedo going to get this?

>>16155102
Oz opening with a live smokey jazz solo is as Oz as it gets?

honker

Chairman Ram is here.

Confessing my sins to Sister Ram.

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did she...?

Is this their biggest show of the year?

extremely visual team

>>16155102
what third world country are you from?

>>16155159
Pretty much.
Their Yokohama show was always August until last year.

>>16155145
>>16155152
Based Kaichow bringing her SUKEBAN pantsu to the show

>>16155181
It’s surreal seeing Oz working in a venue bigger than Korakuren Hall

>>16155179
The one that actually watches the product.

it's a shame that the baked retards aren't supporting the product. would be cool if ozaki could shut them down

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>>16155197
Welcome newfag.

>>16155275
when was this?

Surreal seeing stardom wrestlers in oz academy

>>16155286
2017.10.29
Not august.

>>16155305
it's great isn't it? tribalism is for losers.

>>16155197
They've been doing these Yokohama big shows for years and years, back before they tore down Buntai. They had some large venue shows in Okinawa back when too.

>>16155265
good luck stopping pirating in puro, it's as old as VHS tape trading

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>>16139704
Future Waffle Cooks

>>16155316
>Yukihi's black & white cookie

>>16155275
These Yokohama Oz shows were the highest drawing joshi wrestling shows every year and it would cause the attendance autist consolefags to have full meltdowns.

>>16155336
Sendai Girls was #2 with their Big Show in XYZ. This was 2017-2018ish.

>>16155336
Was there attendance consolefags before Bushiroad entered the picture?

>>16155351
Of course. Same fags different era.
Being a mark means thinking popularity = quality

I noticed the Oz logo looked orange on the big screen above the ring but thought it might be my stream, now I see the jack-o-lanterns it's a Halloween gimmick.

>>16139152
ah, stardom player anou saori is my favourite!

>>16139704
fukuoka wubble crazy

>>16140251
anything to keep the doors open in that place

>>16141939
i don’t even like big bang theory but i can’t believe he got to meet anou

I was told FWC was losing...

Saori is probably the reason any of this is happening. i kneel indomitable girlfriend

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>>16142746
>newfags always stepping into a place trying to “make it their own”

>>16148606
sauce

>>16155179
america.

>>16155265
>caring about what others are doing
you’re gonna have a bad time

>>16155433
That wouldn't make sense if they want an angle out of it which is obvious.

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>>16155450
some boob squeeze softcore shit the Shirai Shimai did a long time ago when they were working for a yakuza backed indy

>>16155460
>defending piracy
support ozaki you fuck

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last month
>saori anou will be absent from this event (wrestling at Oz Academy)
next month
>FWC will be absent from this event (wrestling at Oz Academy)

>>16155439
Or Syuri

>>16155479
how petty can you be? your grasping for straws at this point. i like both companies

>>16155483
good point. they did just show her and shida

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>>16155497
this is /oz/ nigga don't fall for the bait
>Syuri
>Syuri
>Syuri

>>16155479
stardom doesn't lose attendance and the minor promotions get a bump, trying to turn this into stardom losing is desperate and pathetic behaviour

Shuri is as boring now as she has always been. There is a reason she never made it as a star despite winning everything in Stardom

>>16155506
stop being such a raging virgin anon and enjoy the show

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>>16155512
she is a star?

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Here's the link to Ozaki's diabolical layout for this match with visual aides.

>https://oz-academy.com/archives/33964


>The match will be divided into teams by drawing lots (already carried out on September 15th), and will begin with a 5-on-5 elimination format (loser-eliminated).

>After the match starts, fighters who are pinned or give up will be eliminated in order according to the elimination rules. In addition, fighters who are down or out of the ring will be disqualified after 10 counts.

>Once the last two players remain, the match will go into a one-on-one singles match.

>In the diagram above, one person remains from each corner, but if one team is eliminated when there are two people left on the other team, the remaining two will play in a single match.

>If one team has three or more members remaining, the remaining members will play in a 3-way, 4-way, or 5-way match before finally competing in a one-on-one single match.

>Once the singles match begins, the rules for deciding the winner will change to the Last Woman Standing rules. With this rule, which aims for a complete and utter decision, the match will not be decided by a three-count fall or submission. From this point on, the referee will start counting down, and if the count does not reach 10, the fall will be invalid and the match will resume.

>The tough rule is that a 3-count fall is required, followed by a 10-count KO. Only the athlete who can overcome this condition will be declared the winner of the match. And the athlete who survives this life-or-death battle will immediately challenge Mayumi Ozaki for the open weight championship!

>>16155514
the only one raging here is you brother. what he said is true

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>I NEED A HERO
kato train starts here. the only woman to win a survival showdown and then a world title match right after.

>>16155529
except only you care and took the bait stfu

>>16155512
Stardom is an idol fed, that's why she's not over there.

mizunami was stiffing syuri and broke her nose

>>16155608
she is over there. having one faction be idols dosent make the whole fed like that. your thinking of the rossy era

>>16155625
didn't look broken just bloody

loving the chin crushers right now
>https://www.reddit.com/r/OzAcademy/comments/1fvil1r/rina_yamashitas_chin_crusher_on_the_whip_oz/

>>16155608
cope

how exactly did ozaki and saori get so close?

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>muh 4 year booking arcs

>>16155645
They all love Ozaki because she's a great boss and super nice.
Anou said at one point the only person she's calls and messages more with other than her own Mother is Ozaki.
Just trust and love.

>>16155657
i thought this was going too happen. dissapointing

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Saori chokes (again). She never had the makings of a varsity athlete, not like Seikigun ace Maya.
Rooting for ozakiwinslol now.

trannies going to watch oz once a year and then seethe about ozaki not putting saori over

>>16155681
Ozaki is backstage playing PGA Tour on her phone while these players kill each other for an hour.
I hope this comes down to Aniki and Hiroyo

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stardom player saori anou loses again

>>16155682
i've been watching all year keep seething

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>>16155694
Truly a longtime fan.

King's Road shit going down right now

isnt that the gaea referee

>>16155681
why root for the option that makes this all pointless?

>>16155716
>Everything is pointless unless there's a title change.
Okay Vince Russo.

>>16155716
>pointless
Oz already released their 2025 schedule. Stay tuned.

>>16155682
Can't wait for the cagematch tranny 5.0 ratings because nerds didn't get their way. Same old shit.

ozaki is such a GILF god damn

All the seikigun internal drama was a red herring to disguise the survival showdown winner and let ozaki have a great 1v1 match without interference. Smarks hate when they get outworked by a 200 iq booker.

>>16155728
my bad then

outlaw mudshow

Aniki's motor is truly impressive. Fucking machine.

>>16155755
agree

This is just cinema at this point

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Roger Ebert gives it 5/5 oscars.

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IT'S A FUCKING HOUSE PARTY
IT'S A FUCKING HOUSE PARTY

Yukihi new Seikigun leader. Ozaki turns face.

i kneel i was wrong this is great

>"Hitori ni natte maketa." - "You became alone and you lost."
Yukihi challenges Ozaki to a match for November. Yukihi doesn't know whether that's Okinawa or Shinjuku. Either way, it's happening next month.

>>16155784
thanks for the translation

Turning babyface after 30 years as a heel is quite a thing

>>16155784
The FACE show is two weeks from now so hopefully that unless Nico gives us the Okinawa show.

Mizunami says she's never wrestled in front of this many people before, drawing a laugh.

>>16155790
There's no such thing as a babyface in Oz Academy just levels of heel

>>16155799
ShuPro still going to put FWC on the cover tits out with a small blurb up top about ANIKI winning.

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MOTY
SOTY
WOTY

>>16155803
It's okay, anon. FWC belong to us now.

>>16155803
Nothing wrong with more Hazuki tattas

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ozaki looked sexy as fuck during that

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>>16138579
>>16140251
This isn't heat. Never was. It only becomes clear after watching today's show, but it's reluctance. They made you think the story was Anou vs Ozaki to surprise you with Aniki.
When Maya Yukihi was heeling hard today, Saori was acting like she didn't really want to turn on Ozaki. Saori is turning babyface too. Ozaki & Anou vs Yukihi & Sekiguchi w/ POLICE. Watch today's show again.

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>>16155784
>Yukihi challenges Ozaki to a match for November.
Yukihi wants a handicap match, Ozaki vs. Seikigun but Anou leaped off the apron and didn't seem to like it. Is she still Ozaki's daughter?

>>16155850
>>16155853
If we get red costume Anou out of this that's worth my next 2000 yen

where's the mega?

>>16155800
The heel side is whichever side POLICE is on.

>>16155977
a true life lesson

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>"Here comes Ohker!"
>"But whose side is she on?!"

>>16156065
is from those old Iron Women photo books?

>>16156106
Full Metal Ladies, yes.

>>16155908
>https://mega.nz/file/cHFWTTaZ#_dTsAubyxaQ5pl7sK81oN47Zgru96kNVH3ae_MW5yyU

>>16156144
Very fast, thank you.

>>16156144
Thanks bro. Going to get comfy with some ozaki kino this evening

>>16156232
The Mizunami/Matsumoto segments of the semi-main is some Kobashi/Misawa kino that should not be missed by any true fan of pro wrestling.

What was the attendance?

>>16156314
Seemed good. Seats around the ring were all full, the stands behind the seats were full, the upper stands behind the main stands were sparodic. The building holds 3000, attendance should be in the 1500-2000 range that we were predicting.

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marvelous

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>>16150897
>>16152400

>>16156144
Awwwyeah time for translax to seethe

>>16156223
this picture is awesome. saori's acting is great here. tells the whole story.

>>16155475
didn’t defend it at all bruh

>>16156314
1799 and trannies are already seething

>>16156718
I haven't seen anyone seething

>>16156747
>was the show good?
>They did an hour long number 1 contenders match into a 25 minute Ozaki beats them up match so I'm going to assume no

>>16156754
I stand corrected

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Boobs

>>16157216
Mommy...

>>16157216
Maya’s squats and bulking really paying off.

>>16156372
Gay

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>>16157216
>>16158023
>Maya’s squats and bulking really paying off.
Mentioning squats in relation to someone's boob size...

>>16158958
I wasn’t referring to that picture specifically, her overall look from last night her thighs and ass we’re noticeably larger

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>The first thing that's important to understand about Ogawa is that he was originally a wrestling otaku, essentially the Japanese equivalent of a hardcore sweatbeard fan (in today's parlance). This matters because a lot of his perspective on wrestling is framed by this, even to this day. For example, he really likes gimmicky stuff like luchadores, masks, tournaments, themed events, etc. His other big interest is bikini shoots and other cheesecake content, because again - he is a sweatbeard fan at heart. These are recurring themes over the years.

>So he started as a ringside photographer in the 70s, and eventually got brought into the business by virtue of being present, in a very similar manner to how how people like Cornette and Heyman got in. He took pictures for their match programs (Ringstar Magazine) and other promotional material, while also serving as the office gopher of sorts.

>During this period, he also served as the "manager" of the Crush Gals. There's a lot of misconceptions around this one, to say the least. I've seen people who cosplay as journalists say that he was their on-screen gimmick manager (like a Heenan), which is...not the case. The misconception perpetuated by Rossy via Dave is that he was their BUSINESS manager in a sense, and was the brains behind the success of Crush. This is also very much not the case.

>Rossy was the manager of Crush in the sense that he was the guy that drove them around and brought them lunch. He was their minder from the office. I'm sure he occasionally talked to potential sponsors or whatever while on-site, but to say he was in any way a key figure responsible for their success is a comically huge reach - the only person who would even suggest this is Rossy himself, which is why Dave's recent comments are so transparent to those in the know.

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>Ogawa eventually gets hired to the Zenjo PR department (probably around 89-90?). This is when most of his legitimate achievements take place. There's a myth I've seen passed around via the usual sources that Zenjo had no wrestling press coverage before Rossy's time in PR. This is blatantly false. They had coverage. Their "commissioner" (actually minority owner) Shinji Ueda was literally the head editor of Daily Sports (ie the boss). However, Rossy almost certainly hustled on the phones to boost coverage in the 90-92 era. That being said, it -was- his job. Once he left in 97, he was replaced by Yurika Tada, who did all the same work Rossy did.

>His most significant accomplishment, however, was that he was the driving force in getting the Zenjo office to embrace home video. Rossy lifted the idea from WWF's coliseum video, and Zenjo was one of the first Japanese companies to provide a video release of every major event. They made a bunch of money off this. This marketing shift had some unintended consequences as the new, expensive merch alienated their traditional young female fanbase, but that's a tangent I'm going to pass on here.

>Rossy was never the booker for Zenjo using any conventional understanding of the term. He did "book" venues and outside talent as part of his duties in the PR department. For example, if Zenjo wanted to do something with LLPW wrestlers, Ogawa would have been one of the people making the calls. Some of this confusion stems from the difference between "booking" and "producing" in Japan, which Rossy has taken advantage of when curating his image in the west.

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>Ogawa has been vague and evasive on this topic in Japanese interviews, because he knows that if he explains that he was really just making the booking calls (as opposed to an actual decision maker) his standing abroad might be hurt, but if he tries to claim that he was the BOOKER in the sense of being the creative decision maker that he will get roasted by the Japanese fans. So he's stuck and generally just tries to avoid it. Avoidance is a bit of a theme where Ogawa is concerned..

>That being said, Rossy -was- in the office and pitching ideas around like everyone else. The stuff Rossy was involved with is usually pretty apparent when you know what he likes. He helped Hokuto flesh out her heel gimmick. He put KAORU under a mask. He was largely responsible for the sudden appearance of Mexican luchadores. He came up with the Chaparita ASARI lightweight wrestler gimmick (that went nowhere). I'm pretty sure the home video naming conventions (eg QUEENS DESTINY CLIMAX EX!") are Rossy-isms. These things (along with endless bikini shoots) comprise most of Rossy's creative contribution to the company.

>The actual bookers were the Matsunagas, most prominently Kunimatsu/Jimmy (the ex-ref). Takashi (the chairman) was sort of overseeing the whole thing, and had input on who was pushed but left the matchmaking mostly to Jimmy. Kenji and Toshikuni were also involved in decision making, but appear to have been more focused on the training side. Ogawa was also below several other people in the office, like Ujie, Bob Yazawa, and a few others. This eventually leads to STRIFE later in the decade, because...

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>Rossy always -wanted- to be the bookerman. He was actually given a chance to book two shows in 1996, as the Matsunagas were preoccupied with their investments going up in smoke due to the financial crisis. The first one was a gimmicky "Junior All-Star" rookie tournament that drew a solid number at 5000 seat Ota-ku Gymnasium. The second (and last) was a two-day Budokan event that was a humiliating disaster for the company - potentially their biggest money-losing event of all time (I have no information on their financials, but it has to be a contender).

>The biggest issue with Rossy achieving his bookerman dream, however, was the fact that referee Bob Yazawa and PR staffer Masa Matsunaga were the sons of Matsunagas and had been helping with booking finishes for years by this point. As the Matsunagas scaled back their hands-on involvement as the 90s progressed, it became increasingly clear that they were handing the booking/producing/training over to Bob and his crew (cousin Kahoru Kage, Ujie, Ando, Sakazaki, etc) and not Rossy. (This turned out to be the right choice, as Zenjo flourished in 99-01 while Arsion slowly fell apart)

>This is when Rossy started plotting his exodus, and went around covertly poaching talent to jump ship with him. This gained him a lot of enmity in the industry, because at the same time he was doing this, Kyoko Inoue had been doing the same - except she was doing it out in the open, making transfer agreements with the Zenjo office, etc. A lot of people soured on him after this.

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>Anyway Arsion is formed, and things start out well enough. The deal was that Aja would join as the booker, and this was a key part of her agreeing to go with him. Soon Rossy started meddling with the booking (you'll notice that random luchadores start appearing, and the bikini content doubles) ultimately throwing all of the company's resources behind super green rookie Ayako Hamada, who never quite managed to get over. Rossy was throwing tons of money into a pointless singing/idol project called "CAZAI" while the company had no TV and was circling the drain in terms of gates.

>(Side note: Rossy is generally regarded within the scene as a terrible booker. He doesn't really have a sense of how builds work, or how gimmicks get over, or how finishes work or any of that. He's very much a "mark booker" that most just books stuff like luchadores, clap-clap-spot style matches, tall foreign model-types, and gimmick events like themed tournaments or whatever. Ever notice that 90% of Stardom's matches are pointless card-filler tags that end in a draw more often than not? Yeah that's because he's got nothing.)

>Eventually this led to all sorts of drama backstage, and Aja eventually quit in 2001. This resulted in a trial (the details of which I'm not getting into here) where Ogawa was found guilty of misconduct and order to pay significant compensation to Aja. The judgment helped put the final nails in Arsion's coffin. He then tried to reboot the company with new backers as AtoZ with Hotta, but it also quickly went out of business. He then vanished into the weeds for a minute, before being hired by Jd' as a consultant to try to save the company. They almost immediately went under. This was likely going to happen anyway but at the same time, Rossy's contributions were very ...not good

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>At this point we're almost to the point where most people at least have some sense of what he's done- Stardom. Originally formed as a partnership between Ogawa and Nanae Takahashi/Natsuki Taiyo, the company nearly ended up like Arsion when similar tensions over booking, pushes, favoritism, and hierarchy all culminated in the ACT/Yoshiko fight and subsequent fallout. However Rossy was able to keep it afloat long enough to sell to Bushiroad, where he worked for a few years until the owners took away his precious bookerman status, leading to yet another poaching scandal.

>>16149899
this guy was close

mucho texto

Tomoka Inaba

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coomer fans still seething that we doxed them in 2022

>>16161826
Probably 3 brain cells among the whole lot

/oz/ is the most educational general.

>>16160934
>>16160946
>>16160956
>>16160967
>>16160979
>>16160993
Interesting stuff. What’s the source of this?

i have 24 email accounts and 16 mega accounts

>>16162283
it be from reddit

>>16162283
The Podcast

>>16162518
why would you need more than 1 email account for each mega?

>>16162283
>>16162684
Very detailed with knowing all the names and job descriptions.

they call him bowling JD because he's bowling shoe ugly

>>16164120
Cu

>>16164120
shame she's used goods

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>>16164132
te

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>>16164132
nt

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>and you could have it all...
>my empire of dirt...

Is Prominence still a thing? Should I sell my shirt on yahoo auctions to a vintage collector?

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>>16164475
keep it in your collection alongside your dixie carter action figure and chris benoit poster

>>16164475
dead in the water since stardom poached suzi, women deathmatch stuff hasn't gotten any better to sell since kimura was doing them 15 something years ago

>>16164948
not like it was doing numbers with suzu there

>>16164200
If she's not getting paid what are the odds she'd have sex with me for money?

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>height: chiisai
>weight: karui

>>16164961
Going from 100 to 50 is still a 50% decline

oz

>>16166499
Academy?

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momoka slop arrived

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>>16167709
and one more, but that's all I feel like doing, because AI is dirty and sinful

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SeikiGYAN

>>16168359
Broken ribs player

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>why iz u still angry at me doe? u know i wuz apologized. plz let me come bak, natsuki.

>>16167709
Kek

what happened to the salary issue in ice ribbon

>>16169073
I think the President came out and said he'd foot the bill for now.

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>what have I become...
>my sweetest friend...
>everyone I know...
>goes away in the end...

>>16169582
Ohka turning into Yukihi and Anou into Tae Honma really wins this.

Honoka become an Oz regular makes me happy

>>16169617
Yukihi was giving me Ohka vibes with her new gear

It's seikigun black & white (yukihi, kakeru) vs seikigun red (ozaki) with anou still in the traditional black because she's still on the fence.

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>>16167721
we can live real world

>>16170231
This will always be based content because
>Ozaki folds her slice
>Anou instinctively checks under her desk wondering where her dog begging usually is and "oh wait I'm at work"

>>16170174
The blowoff is going to be so fucking kino

>>16171497
poor Syuri she missed kino wrestling

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>poor Syuri she missed kino wrestling

>>16171614
She looks so fucking skinny now. They're starving her over there

>>16171716
did you miss MMA Syuri? She was just as thin in 2013

>>16171879
Pro wrestling and mma necessitate different body types

>>16171884
Absolutely. I know you'll probably bring up that a bit of padding helps with bumps, but Syuri has never really deviated too much from lithe and fit.

>>16171716
She got aids

>>16160979
>Ultimately throwing all of the company's resources behind super green rookie Ayako Hamada, who never quite managed to get over
LOL at whoever said this not realising how insanely racist it reminds people jap audiences are

>>16171922
F

>>16169617
Saori turned into the actress that played Lioness Asuka in The Queen of Villains

>>16167709
This is one of the better ones I've seen. Love how she's smiling at the end kek

ZONES

>>16173923
ChiChi

>>16175035
The Azusa Christie return we all needed.

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GAORA has 6 hours of Oz in prime time on December 1st.

>>16172451
maybe she just wasn't ready, anon. she overcame it in time.

>>16176268
it shows the "rocket push" mentality that continued though

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>>16176451
Not everywhere.

>>16176465
How is she so cute

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>>16176878
Ozakers has run the whoe gamut through her career
cute -> sexy -> bdsm -> milfy -> gilfy

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latest Act slut pic from twitter

3some with slutty milf act and wild bunny

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Mio Shirai is coming home.

>>16177131
Now THAT'D be a 3some

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>>16177136
after all, ozaki is confirmed bi

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Momoka hiding a midge slammin fertility doll body is borderline a crime.

>>16177195
>>16177219
Finna splooge

>>16177219
shame about the face

>>16177131
how can a chud be so cute bros

>we aren't going to stream this show or record it in any way
>you are also not allowed to share any pictures from the event even though you paid to get in
is this a thing where they were desperate to sell tickets or what? WAVE can be weird, the Halloween special may as well not exist outside of the 150(?) people who went.

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>>16177231
If Momoka smiled at you out in the real world you would think about it for months incel.
Touch grass.

>>16177244
GAMI is like the 2nd most retarted joshi promoter next to Rossy.
She's always put her dumb ideas over making money.

>>16177348
she looks like every other mid filtered bitch, stop simping for everything with yellow skin and slanted eyes you fat geek

>>16177357
Purely as a booker, chigusa is stupider than both of them

>>16177361
You're angry because the only woman who ever touched your tiny cock was your mother when she changed your diapers 25 years ago.

ozcel having a real normal one posting about tiny baby cocks

>>16177348
Is this that transgendered wrestler VENY everyone talks about? He looks like he can pass but when you look closer you can tell it's a dude.

>>16177390
you just got annihilated anon and this post confirms it - take the L.

>>16177368
Chigusa had more success than either of them with gaea.

ozcel keeps acting like interacting with a female is a big deal

>>16177411
you need to be annihilating your harddrive ozpedo

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no manlets allowed in this thread, go back

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>>16177415
your mom touching your pee-pee is a "big deal?"
that's your comeback?
>>16177421
calling an Oz fan a pedo might be the laziest trolling attempt seen by the Stardomfag discord circlejerk crew. Go back to shitting up /marigold/

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>>16177459
>.gif
> doesn't loop
LOL
LMAO

We're making fun of Marine Corpse veterans now?

Ice is dying and yappy is still there lmao

>>16177491
shes leaving next month

>>16177508
Glad she found someone that can keep her visa alive

>>16177491
Yappy is going to Stardom

>>16177517
lol lmao

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>>16177390
>>16177415

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>doesn't book foreigners
>no more men's matches
fuck gami, praise yumi
happy halloween WAVEbros

yappy is going to oldz academy lel

It wouldn't be /oz/ without the console war tard seething about Stardom to end the thread

>>16177572
bushiroad is going bankrupt either way.

NXT Stardom will win even more Meltz awardz next year. Don't forget to chant "this is awesome" at all the spotz.

>>16177567
She's going to Lawson's and the Choco Hole.

>>16177572
if you pay attention to the stories there's a very good chance Ozaki is going to be in a Stardom ring come 2025.

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>>16177608

>>16177600
Choco cant even afford lunches nevermind a visa. And akki is already on the outs with yappy for fucking over one of her friends

>>16177661
So she's definitely Marigold bound.

I do appreciate the schizo waiting until the end of the thread to have his melty desu

>>16177690
More that she's going back to the sea shindies

>>16177917
I can't remember where she's actually from, but with her connections she could probably run her own promotion and bring in enough talent to pay her bills. Bring in students to 'train' and carney them of their money.

>>16177957
What money would she do that with? She's on ice ribbon salary

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Next show.

--------------------

Oz Academy
~Serpent's Temptation~
November 10, 2024
Shinjuku FACE
Tokyo, Japan

>5. Handicap match
Maya Yukihi, Saori Anou & Kakeru vs. Mayumi Ozaki

>4. 6-Person Tag Match:
Ryo Mizunami, Sonoko Kato, & Itsuki Aoki vs. Akino, Tsubasa Kuragaki & Kohaku

>3. Single Match:
Haruka Umesaki vs. Chi Chi

>2. Tag Match:
Hiroyo Matsumoto & ZONES vs. Ram Kaichow & Meika Ozaki

>1. Single Match:
YuuRI vs. Honoka

>https://oz-academy.com/archives/34159

Honker is the loyal rookie

>>16178181
>Meika Ozaki
GOOD MORNING SIR

>>16178181
Yonoyama being injured has been nice.
She does nothing for me and hasn't for years

>>16178392
you probably piss and shit yourself laughing at momoka matches

Tae Honma has not wrestled for us in 2 months.

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We're still in the golden age, you just sometimes forget how good we have it. Value the players. One day they'll be gone and you'll miss them.

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>>16178418
Momoka has what Yoneyama lost years ago.
>>16178438
She's on their Gunma show this weekend with a nice local promoter's pick 'em line-up.

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>>16178504
What the fuck. That building is immense. Capacity is 8000, bigger than Yokohama.

>>16178534
that explains why they're loading up the card. this better get a stream. that and a korakuen stream in december?!

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last for our girl